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Gold refined, or, Baptism in its primitive purity proving baptism in water an holy…Gold refin'd, or, Baptism in its primitive purity proving baptism in water an holy…
Gold refined, or, Baptism in its primitive purity proving baptism in water an holy institution of Jesus Christ ... : wherein it is clearly evinced that baptism ... is immersion, or dipping the whole body, &c : also that believers are only the true subjects (and not infants) of that holy sacrament : likewise Mr. Smithies arguments for infant-baptism in his late book entitled, The non-communicant ... fully answered / by Benj. Keach ...Gold refin'd, or, Baptism in its primitive purity proving baptism in water an holy institution of Jesus Christ ... : wherein it is clearly evinced that baptism ... is immersion, or dipping the whole body, &c : also that believers are only the true subjects (and not infants) of that holy sacrament : likewise Mr. Smythies arguments for infant-baptism in his late book entitled, The non-communicant ... fully answered / by Benj. Keach ...
London : Printed for the author, and are to be sold by Nathaniel Crouch ..., 1689
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Chapter 10: Wherein the great Arguments, and pretended Scripture-Proofs for Infant-Baptism, concern…
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Answ. That Children were then admitted Members of the Jewish Church is granted, and 'tis as evident that God hath now quite pulled down that House of his, (I mean that National Church-state) and broke up House-keeping, and turned the Bond-Woman and her Son, (i. e. the Fleshly Seed, Servants and Infants) all out of doors; the natural Branches are broken off, and God hath now built him a new, a glorious, and more spiritual House, into which he admitteth none as his Household-Servants to dwell in his Spiritual Family, but Believers only, or such as profess so to be:1 Ye also (saith Peter) as lively Stones, are built up a Spiritual House, &c. and that the old House, the Jewish Church-state, with all the Appurtenances, Rites, and Privileges of it, is pulled down, and a new one built, into which Infants are not to be admitted, is very evident from what the Apostle speaks, Heb. 7. 12. For the Priesthood being changed; there is made of necessary a Change also of the whole Law, which must needs include Circumcision with all the Appurtenances and Privileges belonging to it. And therefore as Infants Church-membership came in with the Law of Circumcision, so it went out and was disannulled with it; they were, 'tis true, of the Household of old, but it was by a positive Law: Show us the like now and you do your business, or else you say nothing; For evident it is that what Privileges soever are given to any Persons by an Act of Parliament, which said Law was to continue in force for so long a time and no longer, when that time is expired and another Parliament makes a new Law, wherein many things are contained that were in the first, but those certain Privileges given to those Persons in the former Law, are left out in this latter ⟨p. 114⟩Act, it would […] be a folly for any of them to […] those Privileges by virtue of a Law that is gone, and now not in force. Or if a Man should have a Legacy bequeathed to him by the Will and Testament of his Friend, and yet afterwards his Friend sees cause to make another Will, which is his last Will and Testament, and in the last Will leaves him quite out and gives him no such Legacy, it would be a foolish thing for him to sue for the Legacy left him in the first Will, which is void in Law by his Friends last Will and Testament. Just so it is here;